Major Accessions to Repositories in 1995 relating to Sport

National, Special and University

National Library of Scotland, Department of Manuscripts

• Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers: records 1744-1992 (access restricted) (Acc 11208)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Belfast Rowing Club: membership records and accounts 1920-87 (D 4079)

University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre

• National Cycle Archive, British Cycling Federation: records incl personal papers of EC Claxton and JB Dunlop (MSS 328/B)

University of Westminster, University of Westminster Archive

• The Polytechnic, Regent Street: records incl those of various Polytechnic sports and social clubs c1890-1971

Local Repositories in England

Chester City Record Office

• Chester Football Club: album of photographs and news cuttings 1969-94 (CR749)

Gloucestershire Record Office

• Cirencester Golf Club: records 1899-1989 (D7054)

Hereford and Worcester Record Office

• Evesham Golf Club: minute books 20th cent (BA 11862)

Hertfordshire Record Office

• Hatfield Hyde Cricket Club: records 1908-87 (Acc 3048)

Kent: Rochester-upon-Medway City Archives

• Old Roffensian Society: misc records incl cricket scoring books c1880-1994 (DE440)

Leicestershire Record Office

• FH Pickering of Desford and Leicester: notebooks rel to Leicester City Football Club and Leicester Rugby Football Club statistics, with Filbert Street match programmes 1922-80 (DE 4819)

Surrey: Sutton Heritage Service-Archive Section

• Release from John Watson of Carshalton to George Woodford of Wiltshire rel to horse racing on the downs 1696 (Acc 234)

Greater London: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• Bethnal Green Anglers Club: rough minute book 1930-33 (TH/8650)

Greater Manchester: Bolton Archive Service, Central Library

• Ken Dagnall, association football referee, Bolton: corresp and papers c1950-90 (ZDA)

Greater Manchester: Bury Archive Service

• Tom Hamer, Bury: cycling photo album c1930 (FMX/7)

Greater Manchester: Wigan Archives Service

• Baths Hall, Wigan: handbill for boxing matches 1937 (ACC 2946)

Merseyside: Liverpool Record Office and Local History Department

• Hillsborough Disaster Appeal: corresp rel to donations 1989 (ACC 5132)

West Midlands: Coventry City Record Office

• Coventry Mountaineering Club: records 20th cent (Acc 1770)

West Midlands: Sandwell Community History and Archives Service

• West Bromwich Albion Football Club: contract for George Woodhall to play 1889 (Acc 9519)

Oxfordshire Archives

• Oxford University and College Servants Rowing Club: records 19th-20th cent (4028)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

• Stoke-by-Nayland Cricket Club: records 1911-15 (GC 553)

Surrey Record Office

• Surrey Lawn Tennis Association: annual handbooks 1952-54 (4419)
• Surrey sports guide 1962-68 (4426)
• Surrey County Cricket Club: yearbooks 1976-78 (4427)
• The Epsom Brotherhood: cricket score books 1924 (6264)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Northumberland Football Association: records 1899-1994 (S/NFA)
• Birtley Welfare Ladies Bowling Club: photographs and newscuttings 1939-93
• Northern Womens Bowling Association: records 1931-94 (SX46)
• Bensham Wesleyan Tennis Club: minutes 1922-41 (SXS3)
• Up North Combine North of England Homing Union: handbooks 1951-93 (SXS4)
• Percy Park Rugby Union Football Club: records 1881-1980 (S/PPR)
• Medical Rugby Union Football Club: minutes and handbooks 1946-93 (S/RFC2)
• Northumberland Rugby Union: handbooks 1957-92 (S/NRU)
• Transcripts of entries in local newspapers rel to Northumberland Rugby Union 1880-1969
• Wallsend Old Boys Football Club: minutes 1906-08 (S/FC1)
• Rockliff Rugby Union Football Club, Whitley Bay: records 1890-1989 (S/RFC3)
• Gateshead Amateur Swimming Club: minutes 1904-47 (SX48)
• North Eastern Counties Amateur Swimming Association: records 1911-93 (SX63)
• Gosforth Central Bowling Club: minutes 1934-82 (SX64)

Warwickshire: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

• Stratford-upon-Avon Bowling Club: records 1933-53 (DR 876)

Wiltshire County Record Office

• Alderbury Cricket Club: records 1896-1990 (2955)

North Yorkshire County Record Office

• Goathland Golf Club: records 1895-1948 (MIC 3116) (ZSX)

Local Repositories in Scotland

Edinburgh City Archives

• Edinburgh Corporation Golf Club: records c1890-1970 (275)

Perth and Kinross District Archive

• King James VI Golf Club, Perth: records 1856-91 (MS151)